Author: Adrienne Gonzalez

Adrienne is a 15-year veteran of the accounting industry, if by "veteran" you mean "vulture prowling the periphery of the profession waiting for something exciting to happen." She has been spewing vitriol on Going Concern since the site was founded in 2009. A former CPA review employee, she has sat through more FAR classes than any CPA exam candidate ever could -- even one who has failed FAR seven times -- and can still recall most of the mnemonics all these years later.

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Footnotes: Tighter Repos; New Deloitte Digs; Get Your Bitcoin | 06.12.14

Adrienne Gonzalez
June 12, 2014

Rule Makers Tighten Accounting for 'Repos' [WSJ] Deloitte is moving its Los Angeles office [LAT] […]

Fraud

Listen to a Fake IRS Agent Try Telling Ex-Crazy Eddie CFO He’s About to Be Arrested

Adrienne Gonzalez
June 12, 2014

Perhaps you have heard of some very ambitious (and stupid) scammers posing as IRS agents […]

#TBT: That Time Jim Turley Used a World Cup Metaphor to Explain the Need for Global Accounting Standards

Adrienne Gonzalez
June 12, 2014

What can the World Cup teach us about accounting rules? (Other than rampant corruption is […]

Deloitte

We Have No Words For “Deloitte In a Word”

Adrienne Gonzalez
June 12, 2014

You've done the impossible, Deloitte, you've rendered us speechless.

Deloitte

Deloitte Seeks to Dismiss Headhunter’s Claims of Sexual Harassment and Employment Discrimination

Adrienne Gonzalez
June 12, 2014

Last month, we told you about a lawsuit filed in New York by the ex […]

News

Rothstein Kass Refugees Are Starting Fresh After the KPMG Acquisition

Adrienne Gonzalez
June 12, 2014

We heard a lot of chatter in the comment section after we first started reporting […]

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Footnotes: Pleading an 8th; The FBI Didn’t Even Look; Hacking Your Toilet | 06.11.14

Adrienne Gonzalez
June 11, 2014

Ex-Goldman director Gupta loses bid to stay out of prison [Reuters] Pot activists in Colorado […]

PCAOB

Grant Thornton Fails to Take Up the PCAOB’s Offer to Get Better at Auditing

Adrienne Gonzalez
June 11, 2014

The good news for Grant Thornton is that they managed to take remedial actions related […]

Deloitte

Noted Forced Ranking Enthusiast Deloitte Declares Forced Ranking Dead

Adrienne Gonzalez
June 11, 2014

The timing of this discussion is pretty good considering we have not one but two hot conversations happening in Open Items as we speak; one person was “forced to resign” from the Big 4 after just 6 months, while another person asks if anyone has been or knows anyone who has been coached out. You will see momentarily what this has to do with forced rankings but for now, let’s pull an old article out of the archive from Francine McKenna: